Dark Winter Series (Book 1): Dark Winter by Fernfield Rebecca

Author:Fernfield, Rebecca [Fernfield, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic
Publisher: Redbegga Publishing
Published: 2020-05-31T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Sinking back into the raspberry velvet of the sofa placed in her living room to face the now dead television, PC Vicky Al Farad took a sip from the glass of wine she had poured for herself barely sixty seconds after unlocking her front door, and certainly before taking off her woollen hat, coat, and the bag slung across her shoulder. She carried the glass with her to the hallway as she forced her shoes off by the backs, her mother’s shrill reprimand remembered from childhood ringing as a memory. If she could see her using the toes of her shoes to force the back of her heel down whilst taking a large mouthful of wine from an oversized glass, washing up from last night still beside the kitchen sink, she would have given her that disapproving frown she had mastered as the mother of seven children. But today, her mother, may she rest in peace, would just have to forgive her. She glanced at the ceiling, muttering a silent ‘Sorry Mum’, then closed her eyes. The pain behind them was deep; today had been one of the most intense of her life, and her shift at work had officially finished seven hours before she had been able to make her way home.

Exhausted, she had left the torchlit office, realising that she would be more use to the team, and the poor sods whose lives were about to be turned upside down, if she had a decent sleep. She took another sip of wine, enjoying the warm buzz that it brought, and forced herself to recline on the sofa. Laying stiffly and at an awkward angle, she took another sip of wine and almost instantly rose to stand; sitting still was a tough call, one that she had never been particularly good at. Relaxing after the events of the day, even with the wine, felt like an impossible task.

Walking back through to the kitchen to refill her glass, her mind returned to the shopping centre and the redhead groomed by Callum Frost, a member of a notorious gang out of Manchester that had arrived in town last year and quickly established their dominance among the drug pushers. They had a reputation for violence, a brutal leadership, and were suspected of involvement in several murders although, so far, the evidence wasn’t strong enough to push through a prosecution. Police operations extended to observations at this stage and given the suspicions of human trafficking activity beyond the typical movement of children from one town to another to carry out drug-related activities, Vicky agreed that getting the evidence together, and making it stick, was crucial. But watching them groom women and children, and taking no immediate action, was proving to be hard!

The young redhead hadn’t seemed the typical mark the gang targeted. She was a little older for a start, the younger girls with the awful makeup groomed in the minutes before Callum had approached her, were the norm. She was, however,

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